REBEL NEWS IS BEING INVESTIGATED
The Toronto police are officially investigating Rebel News for running ads by local community activists on our Rebel News billboard truck.
We recognize the community's concern about a truck displaying Islamophobic messaging in Toronto.
— Toronto Police (@TorontoPolice) June 19, 2024
The TPS Hate Crime Unit is investigating.
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Here’s the official police announcement, declaring those ads “Islamophobic" and suggesting that a hate crime has been committed. A crime!
THE ADS
The ads were created by a group called "Canadians Opposed to the Occupation of our Streets and Campuses.” It’s a bit of a mouthful but it tells you everything.
They’re anonymous because they know they’d face retaliation for speaking out — that’s how bad things are these days. The ads just show actual footage of what the pro-Hamas gangs are doing to Toronto — including committing real crimes ignored by the police and politicians. In the case of this particular ad, the images included pro-Hamas gangs shutting down the streets in downtown Toronto.
Toronto police don’t think the pro-Hamas street gangs themselves are committing hate crimes. They think the ad we ran on our truck is a hate crime. In Trudeau’s Canada, you’re allowed to support terrorism. You’re NOT allowed to criticize terrorism. That sounds more like 1984 than 2024.
FREE SPEECH
In the case that the police are investigating, we were running the ads for another group of loyal Canadian citizens who felt totally abandoned by the police and politicians. Real Canadians don’t shoot schools or take over campuses. They run ads on our truck. It’s called free speech — you can look it up in our Charter of Rights.
Oh, by the way, there are other billboard trucks in Toronto, with pro-Hamas and antisemitic ads on them. Police are fine with those. Only people who say things that criticize Trudeau or his Hamas allies get investigated by police.
The Toronto Police are investigating a truck in Toronto that explained the issue of radical Islam, for Hate Crimes but ignore a truck in Toronto that promotes hatred against Jews. Why?https://t.co/J5OtVuRp1u pic.twitter.com/CMDDyU2bzh
— [email protected] (@neveragainlive1) June 19, 2024
BACKGROUND
It’s really about more than this truck — it’s about cancel culture, the weaponization of hate speech laws, and two-tier policing. We’re going to fight, we've hired a lawyer. Because this is Canada, not Gaza. We still have free speech here, for now.
But it’s actually pretty serious — if convicted for “hate speech” Ezra could be jailed for up to two years just for running that ad. And don’t think they won’t try — our Rebel News reporters have been arrested by Toronto police several times just for asking Hamas supporters questions. The police hate us because we’re not silent and obedient, which is what they’ve told the Jewish community to be.
The police should be embarrassed they’re investigating the messenger, instead of understanding the message. Just a few weeks ago, masked Hamas gunmen shot at a Jewish girls' school in Toronto. The Hamas encampment at the University of Toronto has thugs checking if students are Jewish or not before letting them pass.
There was an insane, eight-hour antisemitic hate march outside a Thornhill synagogue. Hamas supporters walk through Jewish residential neighbourhoods in north Toronto shrieking at Jews.
This happens every day. The police just stand there and do nothing. Sometimes, they actually bring the Hamas gangs coffee — like this, when they blocked a road into a Jewish residential neighbourhood.
THE TRUCK
We’ve used our billboard trucks to talk about these issues for months — including our campaign to deport foreign nationals who support Hamas. We also have a campaign against Trudeau’s plan to bring thousands of Gaza refugees to Canada.
We think we know why people feel so desperate that they’re taking out anonymous ads on our trucks. They feel completely abandoned and ignored by the institutions they rely on. They want to speak out — because no one is speaking for them.
We know the feeling — the reason Ezra bought the truck in the first place is because all the truck companies we used to work with told us that they’re too scared to criticize Hamas, because they’re worried their trucks will be attacked and their drivers could be injured.
JOIN OUR FIGHT
Ezra's been fighting against censorship his whole life — he's not going to stop now. There is a crime wave in Toronto, and it’s not ads from scared citizens worried about Hamas gangs. It’s the Hamas gangs themselves.
We're going to fight this, and we’re going to keep taking the truck out again. because Ezra is a free man in a free country — at least for now.
We've broken no laws. And if the Toronto police think they can bully us into silence, well, bring it on.
If you want to help me pay for our lawyer to fight this police investigation, please help save me (and save our truck) by donating right here on this page. You can also sign up for email updates so I can let you know what happens.
This country is built on free speech, and we’ll be damned if some Hamas thugs, and their obedient shills in Trudeau’s police force, can scare us into silence.
